Hidden inside shames sit mashes and shames, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mashes and shames tie for the highest Scrabble score from shames at 11 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in shames: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shames itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shames. For points, the strongest plays are mashes and shames — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, shame, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, shame, shams, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shames produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, hams, mass, mess, same, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, hems, mash, mesh, and sham — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shames turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, ham, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in shames and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
shames is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in shames carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for shames. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
shames is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mashes and shames, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shames earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in shames produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.